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Charles Schulz Quotes

24 quotes from Charles Schulz — Creator of Peanuts (Charlie Brown, Snoopy)..

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Humor

I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!

Humor

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Happiness

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

Perseverance

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.

Wisdom

Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.

Advice

Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.

Happiness

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Family

There is no greater burden than great potential.

Potential

In the Book of Life, the answers are not in the back.

Wisdom

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears that we never use.

Life

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

Humor

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Life

Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.

Wisdom

It was a dark and stormy night. - Snoopy

Creativity

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

Reflection

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

Loneliness

It's either the flu or love... The symptoms are the same.

Love

It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips. But I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.

Charles Schulz

Leo Tolstoy dealt with the major problems of the world. I'm only dealing with why we all have the feeling that people don't like us.

Charles Schulz, 1977 BBC interview

I never even let Charlie Brown kick the football.

Charles Schulz, final interview with Al Roker, 1999

I'm always very much offended when someone asks me, 'Do I ever do satire on the social condition?' Well, I do it almost every day. I do things which are more important than politics. I'm dealing with love and hate and mistrust and fear and insecurity.

Charles Schulz, BBC interview, 1977

I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.

Charles Schulz, letter to Joel Lipton, 1970

Most people who have comic-strip ambition wish to be able to draw only two or three weeks' material and then have it marketed. They are not willing to go through many years of apprenticeship.

Charles Schulz, on the apprenticeship required for cartooning

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